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Mapping the Colorectal Cancer Screening Proposal: Why Use an Efficiency Frontier
2026-03-13 16:24 UTC by Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05149672650241065616noreply@blogger.com

CMS has a current NCD for biomarker CRC screening, using 74% sensitivity and 90% specificity as a benchmark.  This means you pick up about 3/4 of cancers (relative to colonoscopy) and you send about 10 patients per 100 to a false positive based colonoscopy.Here I expand on a prior blog and show the two new CMS options graphically.We can show the statistical space on a probability chart. 

      

 

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